John McHardy Sinclair

John McHardy Sinclair
Born(1933-06-14)14 June 1933
Bo'ness, Scotland
Died13 March 2007(2007-03-13) (aged 73)
Florence, Italy
Spouses
  • Margaret Myfanwy Lloyd
    (m. 1956, divorced)
  • Elena Tognini Bonelli
    (m. 1996)
Children5
RelativesBeryl Atkins (sister)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Academic work
Institutions

John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933 – 13 March 2007) was a British professor of Modern English Language at Birmingham University from 1965 to 2000. He pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.